“ Incumbent on the city's approval of the campus plan, we believe it's possible to bring everything together in one place. ”
- John Williams- Copy
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“ We're all in a waiting game until all the incumbents finalize their decisions. ”
- John Mills- Copy
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“ As chief administrative officer, I have to take responsibility for the failings revealed. ”
- Kofi Annan- Copy
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“ Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. ”
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan- Copy
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“ We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
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“ A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
- Vera Brittain- Copy
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“ The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion of their power. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. ”
- Brooks Atkinson- Copy
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“ America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ I thank Turkish officials for their decision not to send troops to Iraq. Turkey is a friendly country, and I want a new page to be opened between us. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ There's no reason to run against an incumbent who is doing a good job. ”
- John Mills- Copy
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“ Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about. ”
- Jack Schwartz- Copy
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“ In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. ”
- Zhu Rongji- Copy
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“ Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died. ”
- Ben Shahn- Copy
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“ I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. ”
- Marty Feldman- Copy
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“ Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
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“ I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers. ”
- Trent Lott- Copy
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“ Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'. ”
- Chris Cooper- Copy
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